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Rafael Kitover wrote:
I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below theThat's not completely true: ":" is an invalid character for Windows filenames.
root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because
apparently windows file names cannot contain "::". Eg.
$ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument
This is sufficiently different from UNIX to trip most people up,
especially those working with Perl. Further, filenames with one colon do
work, e.g. Touch 'Foo:Bar'.
For this reason I propose changing the "man" command in Cygwin to take the special case of "::" into account and convert it to a ".", iff the file containing "::" does not exist (might be supported in the future.) If this is considered a good idea I'll be happy to make the patch. Cheers,
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